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Primary Research #4

Advantages and Disadvantages of Primary Research

Advantages

1. up to date
2. specific to the purpose
3. collects data which no other business or research centre have
4. better control (because you can lead an answer that you want to get through the methodologies of Primary Research)
5. confidential information than others so you can get information advantage
6. in the case of using surveys then the cost might be cheaper
7. a topic can be new and original so only few information exist

 Disadvantages

1. difficult to get information
2. take long time to research (depends on the topic)
3. expensive to collect data because there are only few data
4. may leading wrong direction or result from the research (if the sample isn’t enough or if you choose wrong methodologies for your research)

 I could find few information about advantages and disadvantages of Primary Research however there are many sources of advantages and disadvantages of each methodologies of Primary Research. e.g. advantages and disadvantages of ’survey’

Thus I looked at each different methodologies of Primary Research then I found each methodologies advantages and disadvantages.

I will post about it later soon.

Also if you read about advantages and disadvantages of secondary research then you can get more senses about Primary Research because you can compare between Primary research and Secondary research.

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Primary Research #3 – definition

I will post this entry that I’ve done the research about Primary Research so far.

What is Primary Research?

information you collect on your own

collecting data about a given subject directly from the real world

any type of research that you go out and collect yourself

getting original data directly about the product and market

primary data is data that did not exist

the research is original (different from secondary research : I will explain more about secondary research later)

it involves firsthand observation and study by a researcher

“Primary research is the study of a subject through firsthand observation and intestigation, such as analyzing a literary or historical text,conducting a survey, or carrying out a laboratory experiment. Primary sources include statistical daya, historical documents, and works of literature and art.” (quotation from in the MLA Handbook (4th ed.), Joseph Gibaldi (1995) p.2)

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